Toy for beginners? I had the GT550 years ago, not a bike for the timid!


"Scotty" wrote in message
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A toy bike for beginners.

SV

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
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Almost as much fun as messing around with boats . . .

http://captneal.homestead.com/GT380.html

CN

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:37:04 -0500, Capt. Neal®
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It's more like a chrome-plated chainsaw with wheels. Nice for zipping
around town, but I wouldn't take it out on an interstate highway. It's
in very nice shape though. 28,403 miles? What happened to the original
exhaust headers? You know, the bluish purple ones.

RR


You're looking at the originals. It's a two-stroke and the headers
don't get hot enough to turn blue. Besides, I ported, polished and
re-jetted so it burns clean and fast. It's got 29,000 miles on it now.
Original. It's just now getting really broken-in.


It doesn't even compare to my Harley.


Anybody who rides bikes on the Interstate is rather dumb. Winding
roads is what a bike is for or blasting around town.


Yeah, I'd be afraid to take that POS on the highway, too.





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On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 07:02:31 -0500, "Mark" Boatbasin@optonline(remove
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Toy for beginners? I had the GT550 years ago, not a bike for the timid!

JAP SCRAP

A toy bike for beginners.


Maybe someday, although I doubt it. You'll get to ride on a Harley,
then you'll know what a real bike is. It makes your 380 ride like a
Schwinn.





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In my teens I had a Honda CM400T. Nice size. Fun to ride.
Wish I had one now.

http://www.micapeak.com/DPG/honda/misc/cm400t.gif

"Sailct41" wrote in message ...
My best friend had that model in high school back in the 70's. I had a KZ
400 and we rode everywhere and crashed often as well. When that 380 hit the
power band he would leave me in a cloud of blue oil smoke and it would take
forever to catch up. I always wondered how the three cylinder 750 was.

Scott


Had a friend back in the 70's who souped up a GT-750 water buffalo.
Name was Craig Batterschell. I did the original porting, polishing
and tuning. K&N air filters with three 32mm Mikunis, expansion chambers,
nitrous and eventually a turbo/nitrous.

You were doing good if you could hold on. It felt like your hands were
being ripped off the grips. What a wild ride. He did the quarter mile
in the mid-nines.

CN

"Horvath" wrote in message ...
Maybe someday, although I doubt it. You'll get to ride on a Harley,
then you'll know what a real bike is.


Knowledgeable people call them Hardley Ablesons!

CN

I was just ragging on Neal. Didn't see the cross posts.
I had an RD350 several decades ago, fun little bike.

SV



"Mark" Boatbasin@optonline(remove this).net wrote in message
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Toy for beginners? I had the GT550 years ago, not a bike for the
timid!


"Scotty" wrote in message
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JAP SCRAP

A toy bike for beginners.

SV

"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
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Almost as much fun as messing around with boats . . .

http://captneal.homestead.com/GT380.html

CN

"Red Cloud®" wrote in message ...

Knowledgeble people don't talk about Suzuki GT380's at all when they are talking
about motorcycles.



How come it is, then, that 125 people have checked in at the photo
site in the past 24 hours?

http://captneal.homestead.com/GT380.html


CN

I had a 84 Sportster that I had for about 30,000 miles before I injured my
back doing some weight lifting. It was a sad day when I sold her. A couple
of years later I happened to buy a KZ-1000 LTD from the early 80's. I
truthfully thought the Harley was better constructed but I really liked the
double plus horsepower from the KZ. I guess I could compare it to my last
boat. I had a CT-41. Great for the ocean, sitting on the deck with the
radio on, auto pilot steering, drinking coffee, and looking for traffic. I
would acquaint that with the Harley. I raced on a hot J-105 on the San
Francisco Bay. That was a fast boat easily handled and a great time but I
would not want to spend more then a weekend sailing her.

Scott
"Horvath" wrote in message
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 07:02:31 -0500, "Mark" Boatbasin@optonline(remove
this).net wrote this crap:

Toy for beginners? I had the GT550 years ago, not a bike for the timid!

JAP SCRAP

A toy bike for beginners.


Maybe someday, although I doubt it. You'll get to ride on a Harley,
then you'll know what a real bike is. It makes your 380 ride like a
Schwinn.





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On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:14:51 -0500, Capt. Neal®
wrote this crap:


"Red Cloud®" wrote in message ...

Knowledgeble people don't talk about Suzuki GT380's at all when they are talking
about motorcycles.



How come it is, then, that 125 people have checked in at the photo
site in the past 24 hours?


Two reasons:

It's good for a ****ing laugh.

And how many people stare at car wrecks on the highway?





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